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the.armageddon

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From: germany

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Kind of Bash-Timeout?

Hello everyone. 

First I must say something good about Arch. I love this distribution and in my eyes its one of the (or even THE) best linux you can find.

I've got a strange problem with my Archbox. And since I even don't know how to call it, I can't find a similar post.

When I don't use my PC, for example while hearing music, the screen turns of after about 10 minutes. I recognized this behaviour in runlevel 3 and 5. My desktop is a openbox WM and no screensaver-tool.

I searched a lot in diverse configuration-files, but never found an entry whose name matched this behaviour.

Hope someone knows how to solve.

Big thanks in advantage,
armageddon

PS.: Please excuse my English, I'm a still learning german.

Last edited by the.armageddon (2009-02-11 11:32:00)

davvil

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Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 165

Re: [SOLVED] Kind of Bash-Timeout?

Welcome to arch and the forums

Probably you are seeing the "builtin" X screensaver. Try typing

xset q

in a terminal and look in the output for something like

Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  600

If you want to deactivate just use "xset s off". Other options to xset allow you to configure the behaviour to your likes.

the.armageddon

Member

From: germany

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Kind of Bash-Timeout?

Wow, thank you for the fast answer.

I'm currently at work, will try as far as I am back home..

I'll give response then. I think this fact could perhaps be nice for the wiki.

Greets,
armageddon

the.armageddon

Member

From: germany

Registered: 2009-02-10

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] Kind of Bash-Timeout?

Hey..

I have tried your suggestion and it worked.

Thank you very much for that help, have searched a really long time for a solution.

Best wishes,

armageddon